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Windows 7 includes the new Windows Biometric Framework. [98] This framework consists of a set of components that standardizes the use of fingerprint biometric devices. In prior releases of Microsoft Windows, biometric hardware device manufacturers were required to provide a complete stack of software to support their device, including device ...
Windows 7 is the successor to Windows Vista, and its version name is Windows NT 6.1, compared to Vista's NT 6.0; its naming caused some confusion when it was announced in 2008. [19] Windows president Steven Sinofsky commented that Windows 95 was the fourth version of Windows, but Windows 7 counts up from Windows NT 4.0 as it is a descendant of ...
Then, once again Microsoft adopted incremental numbers in the title, but this time, they were not versioning numbers; the version numbers of Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 are respectively 6.1, 6.2 and 6.3. In Windows 10, the version number leaped to 10.0 [29] and subsequent updates to the OS only incremented build number and update build ...
CE 5.2 Windows Mobile 6.1.4: 6 on 6 November 11, 2008 [8] Windows Mobile 6.5: Titanium May 11, 2009 CE 6.0 Windows Phone 7 [j] Metro ARMv7: October 29, 2010 Windows Phone 7.5: Mango: September 27, 2011 Windows Phone 7.8: Tango: February 1, 2013 Windows Phone 8: Apollo October 29, 2012 NT 6.2 Windows Phone 8.1: Blue April 14, 2014 NT 6.3 Windows ...
A patch is data that is intended to be used to modify an existing software resource such as a program or a file, often to fix bugs and security vulnerabilities. [1] [2] A patch may be created to improve functionality, usability, or performance. A patch is typically provided by a vendor for updating the software that they provide.
Service packs are usually numbered, and thus shortly referred to as SP1, SP2, SP3 etc. [1] They may also bring, besides bug fixes, [2] entirely new features, as is the case of SP2 of Windows XP (e.g. Windows Security Center), or SP3 and SP4 of the heavily database dependent Trainz 2009: World Builder Edition. [3]
Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of computer software operating systems created by Microsoft.Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs).
Windows 7 supports major additions to WDDM known as WDDM 1.1; the details of this new version were unveiled at WinHEC 2008. New features include: [10] DXGI 1.1, which features return of hardware 2D acceleration for use by GDI [17] (but not GDI+) and Direct2D/DirectWrite. BitBlt, StretchBlt, TransparentBlt; AlphaBlend, ColorFill; ClearType font ...